hey_thorn crOwl i pulled my back a few days ago, not that it really matters, but i was driving home early from a grueling day of pruning trees@ work thinking the blather_red_book would be in the mailbox at robin_hill when i got home...(since yesterday was columbus day observed). i was listening to kunek's coma on the i-pod as i made my way down the cobblestone driveway to the postbox that sits along melcroft road. it was somehow a fitting soundtrack to such a heralded event. there it sat amongst our other mail. a rainbow fish in the ordinary catch. from virginia beach, virginia... kat i knew, jepson. yes, my last name is zozula. it's the ukrainian noun for bird. cuckoo to be more specific. i kid not. i really like the book(ecojet made in canada) you chose! it is extremely sturdy and will travel well as it makes its adventurous way across the earth... i loved how you wrote blather red book on the cover. that corner was definately made for our title. that's what's very cool about this project...how we're all doing it together without seeing each other. (however, i liked how you left your fone number, because i'm going to call you and thank you in person for the amazing christening that you have bestowed upon the book...the personal fotos were a nice touch, as well...) and so that's page one...and then there's a foto of beautiful kira and a lovely drawing of a koi. and next... "reach. hope. forever. for beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annhilate us... is it any less difficult for lovers?" ~rainer maria rilke 1st of the divine elegies there are old fotos of the sea and a bit of your shaved dreads? very cool...especially overtop the fabric...and of course your famous buddha stencil! "peace and love...thorn/kat" ("a piece of a thousand pages..." kunek, from coma) what i hear as i write... wow...i feel so blessed...like my soul has just been immersed under a waterfall of friendship...(actually helping my sore back to relax! merci!) and best of all...your personal note...guess what? when it gets all filled up, it gets sent back to you! it's my turn to add my part...i want to start on it right away so jane can experience the wonder and then flux...and every red kid red... 071009 ... thorn crowl! i love your last name. and i'm glad you like the book so much. and i love that you called me, it was really neat to actually get to talk to you in person. the sea pictures are not old, actually, i took them a month or so ago at the outer banks in north carolina. the camera is from the '7os however. and not bits of dreads, i was too impatient to do that and ended up shaving my head, but bits of yarn and probably some hair too. love, . 071009 ... crOwl that's very cool that you loved "across the universe..." my youngest daughter greta is a sophomore at sva in nyc and happened to sign up for an e newsletter from the film's website. they told her about an impromptu gathering with the cast at strawberry fields, the lennon imagine memorial in central park...she went and said the crowd was intimate. all were there except evan rachel wood...playing guitars and singing beatles songs...even julie taymor was there. greta told me they were shooting a special feature for the dvd as well..so looks like she might make it on as part of the crowd... 071015 ... thorn that is way cool. i would love to have been there. what does your daughter go to sva for? i have a friend who's a freshman there this year. 071016 ... crOwl greta is in the film school, majoring in cinematography...who is your friend? what is she studying? and see if she is staying in the george washington dorm...that's where greta was when she was a freshman. i'll tell her about her, maybe she can look her up... 071016 ... thorn my friend is rachael wheeler, i am like 95% sure she is studying photography but i don't really know. she lives off campus in an apartment somewhere in brooklyn. 071021 ... jane i got the shirt today! i am wearing it right now! i love it, thank you so much. this was a rad project. i suggest another blather_t_shirt_swap in the future??? 071024 ... thorn aww yay! i'm glad you like it. blather_tshirt_swap definitely needs to continue, it is just too much fun not to. 071024 ... crOwl how was the art show? and how about your cello playing in the wedding? 071127 ... thorn the art show went well, i sold $50 worth of stuff and made $35, and a lot of people came. it was incredibly stressful though. the quartet also went well, i love playing chamber and quartet music, but unfortunately we still haven't been paid, since apparently we aren't getting paid until the bride gets back from the honeymoon. it's crazy. 071128 ... c r 0 w l my rclg gift for you is almost done. please send me your addy: kzozula@yahoo.com 080226 ... thorn sent. 080226 ... yearleapingc r 0 w l i'm mailing your gift today...thanks again for your enthusiastic play at rclg. you are very smart and have a quick mind for culture. i hope all is well with you at school and with your music...i'm enjoying the photography of paul_paper. and i'm drawing again...and of course, always a story... enjoi... 080229 ... c r 0 w l how are you? 080420 ... thorn hey crowl! i've been meaning to call you for a long time but i haven't, because i'm lazy and i suck. :/ i'm ok though, i've been stressed and depressed and not depressed and made good art and bad art and whatever. but i'm ok. 080420 ... cr0wl how are you these days? 081208 what's it to you? who go blather from